Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
We present an approach for the design and analysis of an electronic voting machine based on a novel combination of formal verification and systematic testing. The system was desig...
Cynthia Sturton, Susmit Jha, Sanjit A. Seshia, Dav...
We propose a small extension of the ERLANG language that allows programmers to specify contracts with type information at the level of individual functions. Such contracts are opt...
Miguel Jimenez, Tobias Lindahl, Konstantinos F. Sa...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
This paper introduces a function that increases the amount of neutrality (inactive code in Genetic Programming) for the Artificial Ant Problem. The objective of this approach is t...